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“The Murder of Gonzago” in “Hamlet”.
Terence and Philip’s “Asses of Fire” in “South Park”.
Radioactive Man started out as one of the comic books read by Bart Simpson. Later, an actual Radioactive Man comic book series was published, parodying various superhero genre cliches.
Don’t mind if I do! Waah! Booga booga!
Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie from Calvin and Hobbes.
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism. But technically speaking, it’s not fiction; it’s a political treatise.
And if we’re including movies, there’s Tom DiCello’s Living In Oblivion, about a no-budget filmmaker trying to film a scene, and Kaufman and Jonze’s Adpatation (which is a fictionalized telling of the adaptation of…itself). “Maybe that’s what’s wrong with me. Bad chemistry. All my problems and anxiety can be reduced to a chemical imbalance or some kind of misfiring synapses. I need to get help for that. But I’ll still be ugly though. Nothing’s going to change that.”
Stranger
Additional movies in movies:
*African Trader * in Clint Eastwood’s White Hunter, Black Heart. Eastwood plays a John Huston-esque director filming an African Queen-esque movie
Mant (“Half man, half ant, all terror!”) in Matinee
Habeus Corpus in The Player
The Dueling/Dancing Cavalier in Singin’ in the Rain
Night Wind in S.O.B.
Stab in Scream 2
Nobody mentioned The Mousetrap yet?
The Neverending Story in The Neverending Story.
The book of poetry written by the Kid in Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren.
The movie Throw Momma From the Train had not one, but two books being written; I believe both of them were called “Throw Momma From the Train.”
The book, the movie and the play “Enchanted April” had a writer who penned salacious romantic biographies of historical ladies, such as “Madame Pompadour” (as written in the play; the book titles may be different in the novel and movie).
BTW, the recently-concluded Radioactive Man series by Batton Lash (nine issues total) is excellent reading if you’re at all familiar with the history of comics.
–Cliffy
There’s the (as far as I can recall) one-episode appearance of the soap opera Gay as Blazes on Queer as Folk.
There is a sequel to Hamster Huey entitled Captain Coriander Salamander and her Single-hander Beli’ander, or something like that.
Baron Bodissey’s legendary masterwork Life is mentioned in several of Jack Vance’s science fiction novels. It’s not clear whether it’s fiction or non-fiction, but at least one professor promised good grades to any student who read the entire thing. Short excerpts appeared in The Face and The Book of Dreams. (And of course Vance’s The Book of Dreams providesonly a few bits and pieces from Howard Allan Treesong’s The Book of Dreams.)
Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream tells us that Adolf Hitler, after dabbling briefly in radical German politics, moved to America and started writing crap science fiction novels. His publications:
The Space Adventures
The King of Mars
Emperor of the Asteroids
The Triumph of the Will
The Master Race
The One Thousand Year Reign
Tomorrow the World
Billy Crystal’s book was. Danny DeVito’s was called something like “Ned and his momma and Ned’s friend Larry”
Which reminds me that Peanuts had The Five Bunny-wunnies And Their Tractor, The Five Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out, etc
Hmm, tough call, but I would say it’s a work of fiction masquerading as a political treatise.
[nitpick]Grunthos was actually an Azgoth of Kria, composers of the second-worst poetry in the universe. I can’t find a Vogon title in the book, maybe in one of the other versions?[/nitpick]
Considering the discussion of The Cat Who Walked Through Walls in another thread recently, I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned the video drama Scourge of the Spaceways, starring Captain John Sterling vs. the Galactic Overlord, written by Hazel Meade Stone and her grandson Buster in The Rolling Stones. (That Capt. Sterling himself has a minor role in Cat is significant to the plot.
Another couple of Heinleins, Stranger in a Strange Land and the final chapter of The Number of the Beast, make reference to an ongoing series of stories written by character Jubal Harshaw based on the Stonebender family. (Spider Robinson fans: yes, that is where Jake’s name comes from.)
I have never read the source material myself, but I gather that the Sherlock Holmes canon includes reference to a non-existent Watson account of a Holmes exploit entitled “The Case of the Giant Rat of Sumatra.”
It wasn’t shown again I don’t think but it was referenced a number of times, including Brian’s noting that it had been canceled.
Didn’t Captain Kirk reference some made up book of future poetry along with The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam when romancing Edith Keeler in “The City on the Edge of Forever”.
On **Terry Pratchett’s ** Discworld there is the Necrotelicomnicon, written by the Klatchian necromancer Achmed the Mad (although he preferred to be called Achmed the I Just Get These Headaches). 